Live Wires NZ Ltd have launched a new range of melamine plates by artist Tanya Wolfkamp at the Spring Gift Fair in Auckland. The range consists of four designs, from the top clockwise: Kakariki and Cabbage Tree, Yellowhead and Hebe flowers, Tui and Pohutukawa amd Kakariki and Mandarins.
They have also been published as a range of five square cards by Live Wires NZ.
The brief was casual, bright, fun with a tropical twist, using NZ imagery. So I dusted off my oil paints as I knew they would give me the pure and rich colours that the brief required and allow me to push around the paint till I was happy with the result. As usual I spent some time getting the colour palette sorted before I picked up the brushes.
It might be serendipitous that the plate mould chosen from the manufacturers turned out to have a slightly rippled effect. These plates are heavy and of an exceptional quality, I had to pick them up to convince myself they weren’t ceramic!
These are no longer in print.
Contact us to buy the unframed original paintings (the image is about 28 cm in diameter). They are painted in oils on canvas.
